Now we know who’s side Pope Francis I is on. Hint: he is not on America’s side. He thinks America ought to open its borders and let everyone and anyone flood in and take over. Overburden the host nation with unskilled poor people and impoverish the whole society. Just as he has suborned such a take-over by Muslims in Europe. He’s a Liberation theologist, a closet Marxist after all (just as he opined that many Marxists are closet Christians). Although Vatican City is still surrounded by high walls. Besides that, Pope Francis is being two-faced and hypocritical by taking such a cheap shot at Trump. The Pope is “building walls instead of bridges” himself by refusing to see the other person’s point of view. Has the Pope questioned the Christianity of the Castro brothers? Pope Francis also said he didn’t want to see his native Argentina become “Mexified”, i.e. taken over by criminal gangs. Finally Trump is a Protestant , a Presbyterian, so what should he care what the Pope says? Protestants have believed the Catholic Church has had its head up its collective ass for some 500 years now. Not too long ago receiving a rebuke from the Papacy would be a badge of honor for a Protestant. To not obey the Pope was to not be a “Papist”. Hence the Pope is himself building metaphorical walls between Catholics and Protestants. As for American Catholics, well they never really listened to the Papacy before, especially on matters like birth control and divorce, so why should they start now? Keep your money on Sunday, let the Church sell its property off if it needs funds.
Reuters) - Pope Francis assailed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's views on U.S. immigration as "not Christian" on Thursday, prompting the billionaire businessman to assail the religious leader as "disgraceful" for questioning his faith.
Trump, the longtime party front-runner in national opinion polls, has been at the center of controversies, including one over his vow as president to build a wall between the United States and Mexico to keep out illegal immigrants.
In a freewheeling conversation on his flight home from a visit to Mexico, Francis told reporters: "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian."
Trump, a real estate developer and former reality TV star, said: "If and when the Vatican is attacked by the ISIS, which as everyone knows is ISIS's ultimate trophy, I can promise you that the pope would have only wished and prayed that Donald Trump would have been president," Trump said in a speech in South Carolina, using an acronym for the Islamic State militant group.
"For a religious leader to question a person’s faith is disgraceful. I am proud to be a Christian and as president I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened," Trump said in a news release responding to the pope.
"No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man’s religion or faith," Trump said.
Trump has also said he would deport millions of illegal immigrants if he wins his party's nomination and then the Nov. 8 election. Last week, responding to the pope's plan to visit the U.S.-Mexican border, he said that Pope Francis did not understand the Mexican border issues.
"The pope is a very political person. I think he doesn't understand the problems our country has. I don't think he understands the danger of the open border that we have with Mexico," he said.
Asked about being called a "political person", Francis said on Thursday: "Thank God he said I was a politician because Aristotle defined the human person as 'animal politicus.' So at least I am a human person."
(Reporting by Philip Pullella aboard the papal plane; Writing by Howard Goller; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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